Meghan O'Leary, JS '07, receives 2017 Fans' Choice Award in USRowing

October 26, 2017

Last year, Meghan O’Leary, JS ‘07, earned a spot on the 2016 Olympic Rowing Team, and became the first Jefferson Scholar to become an Olympian. Today she reaches another milestone in the sport that has taken her across the globe, as she is one of only four athletes in the country to receive a 2017 Fans’ Choice Award.

The Jefferson Scholarship is the premier undergraduate scholarship at the University of Virginia. Scholars are selected through a rigorous selection process that is based on exceptional performance in the areas of leadership, scholarship and citizenship.

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation, like its namesake, knows that virtue and talent come from all walks of life. Indeed it is this knowledge that drives the Foundation to search the world over for its recipients.